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Shrafter

Hello from Hawkes Bay

Found this site while looking for info on NZ woods suitable for long bows. I'm originally from England and I've a great love of the outdoors/bushcraft etc. I'm also the chairman of the English War Bow Society  NZ which is group dedicated to shooting the massive long bows (we are shooting up to 140lbs at the moment) of the medieval-tudor period. We've discovered that bows of that poundage can be made out of Kanuka. At our latest shoot in Taupo a 137lb Kanuka bow broke all of our current distance records.

I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can from some of the excellent info that's available here.

Cheers.

 

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ShrafterPermalink Reply by Rob Mac on June 7, 2012 at 8:02
Giddy keith, it's awesome and incouraging to hear you had good success with kanuka. Some of the first bows I made were out of kanuka and I had mixed results but am keen to give it another try now I have more experience and bows under my belt.I'm also interested in trying deferent natives as I believe we have some awesome timbers out there, some of which have little or no data on there strength and density. I think I saw a photo of that bow on another site, very impressive. Was the bow backed? Any frets on the belly? Cheers. Rob.

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ShrafterPermalink Reply by Keith Collier on June 8, 2012 at 21:47

We will have more bows made out of Kanuka Rob as its proved itself as suitable wood for big longbows. There are some frets appearing but as far as I know the bow is still doing the business (it lives in Cambridge).

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ShrafterPermalink Reply by Rob Mac on June 9, 2012 at 8:14
Wow that's awesome, beautiful bow well done.

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